Wallace Kirkman Harrison was an American architect. Harrison started his professional career with the firm of Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray, participating in the construction of Rockefeller Center. He is best known for executing large public projects in New York City and upstate, many of them a result of his long and fruitful personal relationship with Nelson Rockefeller, for whom he served as an adviser.
Wallace Harrison
The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, seen from Lincoln Center Plaza
Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City
Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College
Construction of Rockefeller Center
The construction of the Rockefeller Center complex in New York City was conceived as an urban renewal project in the late 1920s, spearheaded by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to help revitalize Midtown Manhattan. Rockefeller Center is on one of Columbia University's former campuses and is bounded by Fifth Avenue to the east, Sixth Avenue to the west, 48th Street to the south, and 51st Street to the north. The center occupies 22 acres (8.9 ha) in total, with some 17 million square feet of office space.
Construction progress in December 1933
The Rockefeller Center originated as a plan to replace the old Metropolitan Opera Building (pictured).
John D. Rockefeller Jr., who funded the Met project
The former RCA Building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza
